Our Poster

Below is the final poster and, similarly to our magazine cover, I've analysed the details within.

Our Total Film Magazine Cover

I analysed conventions that I've used in the magazine cover that would similarly apply to Total Film covers. Below was the original cover we created using Adeeti posing for the magazine cover.

Below is the final creation of our front cover using Travoir instead posing as the villain in the magazine.

The Total Film covers on the side of the analysis have the many conventions that I've used for our cover.

Analysis of Magazine Cover

While looking through covers of Total Film and Empire, I've analysed the conventions that are used:

Choosing our music

After browsing through several horror-sounding pieces of music, I managed to pick something that would less likely be recognised to emphasise a more realistic atmosphere within our trailer. The song piece I found was created by Midnight Syndicate, whom are an American musical group that work mainly in the genre of gothic music since 1997. The music piece we've chosen is called "Grisly Reminder".

In the making: The music starts slowly to focus of creating mysterious tension, but in the middle I've decided to speed it up (since the song plays slow continiously) to make the trailer more fast-paced and horrific. The song then comes to a sudden halt for a dramatic pause whilst the audience takes in all the quick flashing images, and slowly reverts back to its normal speed to bring back the creepy atmosphere. Additionally, I've merged another piece of suspence-style music to emphasise that fast and snappy effect on the trailer and this includes the explosion effect that comes with the text.


Sound Effects: SFX can be heard from the beginning when hearing the sound of a moving train. The speech in the trailer ("I think someone's watching me...etc") was merged with a reverb effect to create that mysterious dream-like effect.


About the band: They refer to their CDs as "soundtracks for the imagination" or "soundtracks to imaginary films." Most of the songs on their thirteen albums are created with blend of instrumental music and sound effects and are commonly used to provide atmosphere during the Halloween season, in haunted attractions, and in the role-playing game industry.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Syndicate

Feedback

We've decided it would be more useful if we were to receive feedback from several different people. We've posted our video on all of our Youtube accounts, twitter, DeviantArt and Facebook; and have successfully received well-given comments, along with constructive criticims.

TILL DEATH DO US PART

Finally after a huge group effort and weeks of editing, with the help of my editing software (Sony Vegas 10), our trailer was completed.

The Rating Card

Within our trailer, we've decided to add the American-style rating card before the start of the trailer.

Due to the certificate of our movie (18), we've decided to stick with the red, restricted rating

card. This means that our company is an American corporation in which sets the film in London.

JiGSAW Productions

After shifting from one idea to another, we finally managed to come up with a production name in which we were all satisfied with. Once we've settled with the name, we created our logo using photoshop.
Our logo consists of a puzzled in which surrounds the letter "i" in the name, with "productions" underneath "saw", seperated with a white straight line. rather than associating our name with horror, we wanted to decide upon something that would not sound like anything associated with the horror genre. There are several other well-known procution names that distribute horror movies wihtout having to sound horrific (e.g. Lionsgate)

Production Names/Logos

As we have yet to decide on our production name or logo, I've done some researching for inspration and found several in which are well-known. This would help us explore what makes a good, appealing logo.

Below are some of the well-known production names:

Total Film/Empire Magazine Covers

Here are examples of magazine covers used to promote a film: